Tess Harris represented the Ciliopathy Alliance at two progress meetings of Studying Ciliary Signalling in Development and Disease (SCilS) – the EU-funded Marie Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN).

A Spotlight on our Chair, Hannah Mitchison: “We can’t do this without patients”

From a childhood spent next door to a medical research institute to three decades at the forefront of ciliopathy research, she reflects on science, advocacy and why progress depends on listening to those living with rare disease.

Hannah Mitchison grew up with science so close to home that it barely announced itself as anything special. Born in north London, she spent her early years living next door to her father’s workplace, a medical research institute in Mill Hill. There was a small garden gate between the family house and the laboratory. “He would just walk to work,” she recalls. “So, my dad was a complete scientist, and he kept going till he was in his eighties."

Royal Society Publishing has recently published a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B entitled Unity and diversity of cilia in locomotion and transport, a Theo Murphy meeting issue compiled and edited by Kirsty Y Wan and Gáspár Jékely.

Please join us for our first webinar to learn about:-

- Cilia and how it affects the human body

- An exciting new project (PREDICT) which will help diagnose people earlier with ciliopathies.

Register here and you will receive an email containing information on how to join the meeting.